Simon Hughes; MP and co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues gives the keynote address at Rewley House for the start of the 2012 OxPeace Conference: Disciplines of Peace.
OxPeace 2012: Challenging traditional attitudes in Parliament towards conflict
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Simon Hughes speaks about the aim of APPCGI 'to challenge traditional attitudes held in Parliament and HMG towards conflict', by shifting focus to improving resource allocation and increasing capacity for early-warning and conflict prevention initiatives, and moving toward 'an integrated top-down/bottom up approach with stronger involvement of local peace builders.'
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An annual conference to explore 'Building Peace' from multidisciplinary perspectives held in Oxford. The 2012 conference was entitled, ‘Disciplines of Peace’. The 2012 conference themes included exploring different aspects of the field of peace studies: the relationship between academic research and the practice of peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping; the skills needed for these practices; the way in which established academic disciplines feed into our understanding of...
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